When I reflect on the figures who initially shaped the genre of science fiction, I find myself thumbing through the brittle pulp magazines of the past and remembering the hazy serials that played on early television sets. There’s something a little too quaint about those bygone days, when we relied on gumball machines for our comics and onoughs for entertainment. The mantle of heroism lay squarely on the shoulders of figures like that funny bald…
When I was young, I did not get to experience the world of sci-fi through the modern day fancy eye-catching technology or CGI magic. My crude experience was looking through the VHS tapes that were worn out to a point where the image almost begun to fade. I…
Hearing the word “reboot” can be a bit of a downer, to be honest. And it’s not even that the word itself is heavy or anything. It’s just that “reboot” brings to mind the fondly remembered and often gutsy artifacts from the distant past inasmuch as it is…
The first time I slipped a VHS tape of Blade Runner into my good old VCR, I felt like I was on the edge of a moment in history. Sure, I was just a kid, but this was an era long before “infinite” content could be streamed onto…
I will never forget the first time I watched Blader Runner on a VHS tape. My watching experience of the movie was on a rainy saturday; the sky was gray, steady drizzle was present, the pitter-patter of rain on the roof resonated with the film’s relentless neon lights…
